Collections in Calisphere

This exhibit's story about the local threat to American ideals demonstrates how European events reached across the ocean and affected people in Southern California. The live exhibition ran August 28 to September 30, 1989, moving on to additional locations through 1990.

Institution: California State University, Northridge

Oakland Word's anthology “In Your Ear: Selected Writings from Oakland Word” showcases 53 new and emerging writers from 20 free workshops that took place between February and April 2010 at the Oakland Main Library. Authors include poets from the Oakland Public Library's Second Start Adult Literacy Program.

Institution: Oakland Public Library, Oakland History Center

The city of Los Angeles became the epicenter of a public relations scandal on March 3, 1991, when an amateur cameraman captured on video four uniformed LAPD officers beating motorist Rodney G. King. In addition to generating public outrage, the incident cast a dark shadow over the LAPD and called into question the integrity of the nation's third largest municipal police force. Subsequently, the ten member Independent Commission on the Los Angeles Police Department was formed to conduct a full and fair evaluation of all aspects of the LAPD's structure and operations related to the use of force when making …

Institution: University of Southern California Digital Library

The Stereoviews of Indians and the Colorado River from the J.W. Powell Survey consists of 107 stereographic prints taken from circa 1869 to circa 1874.

Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

Portraits of California Indians, many identified as Piute [sic], and views of mountains from the Lone Pine area.

Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

This collection brings together programmatic, descriptive textual materials and video-recorded proceedings of unique presentations (including readings and recitations of original literature and literary analysis) at the “Indigenous Writers and Their Critics” Symposium held at the University of California – San Diego on Feb. 24 and 25, 2020. The event convened indigenous authors and academics specializing in critical examination of such authors’ literary production, with the goals of profiling the importance of all participants’ work and creating a space for them to dialogue and collaborate at UCSD. Such conversations allow indigenous writers to critically intervene in academic discussions and thereby ensure …

Institution: UC San Diego, The UC San Diego Library

This collection consists of digital photographs, emails, planning documents, publicity materials and publications developed for Casa Gallina, the sixth edition of the inSite art collaborative located in the neighborhood of Santa María la Ribera in Mexico City. In the description for the book Experiences of the Common Good: inSite/Casa Gallina, which documents the six-year project, Casa Gallina is described this way: "The project proposed that although there would be artists (predominantly from Mexico) invited to participate in residencies and long-term research, neither they nor their works would be the main focus, but would constitute only one of the elements of …

Institution: UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives

The inSite Archive contains materials documenting the inSite organization and the projects of its artists. The digital collection highlights a selection of documents, images, videos, and sound files detailing project installations from the five inSite iterations dating between 1992 and 2005, drawn from the full InSite Archive held at the UC San Diego Library's Special Collections & Archives. Created as a network of contemporary art programs and commissioned projects among non-profit and public institutions, inSite explored public or contextual art practice in the specific context of the San Diego-Tijuana border region. In 1980, Installation Gallery was opened in San Diego …

Institution: UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives

This collection contains the materials collected by the AIDS Resource Program of UCSF's Institute for Health Policy Studies to use as reference materials to meet their goal of providing information and education on the San Francisco Model of HIV/AIDS services and to assist in their analysis of other HIV/AIDS health and social services policies and programs. Call number: AR 92-20

Institution: UC San Francisco, Library, Special Collections

The Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE) was founded in 1944 when University of California President Gordon Sproul and California Governor Earl Warren together planned the inception of the Institutes of Industrial Relations to be founded at Berkeley and Los Angeles. Governor Warren asked President Sproul to enlarge the University's educational base in labor and industrial relations, and so facilitate, "open and honest labor-management relationships." The publications of IRLE capture a cross-section of viewpoints and perspectives about work and working life during the second half of the twentieth century, revealing policy and political objectives, the everyday experience of …

Institution: UC Berkeley, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment Collections